Following major investment in its existing offices in Gerrards Cross at the beginning of 2008, B P Collins opened the Chalfont Suite - a new state-of-the-art group of meeting rooms, complete with the latest multimedia technology. This large open space exhibits artwork from a variety of sources for staff, clients and visitors to the firm to enjoy. After the sad passing of former managing partner Ian Johnson in 2010, the suite was renamed in his honour in September 2011.

May 2010: Exhibiting Artists: John Houston

John Houston, OBE, RSA, RSW, studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1948-1954 and became a lecturer there in 1955. He was deputy head of the School of Drawing and Painting from 1982 until his retirement in 1989. He was created an OBE in 1990 and was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Glasgow Institute. He exhibited extensively in mixed and solo shows and was latterly represented in London by Browse & Darby. Works are to be found in a great many important public and private collections worldwide. In 2005 he was honoured with a major Retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. He lived and worked, for over 50 years, in Edinburgh with his wife, the painter, Elizabeth Blackadder. He died in Edinburgh on 27 September 2008.Exhibiting:"Summer Sea" 2005

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The Suite

Following a major investment in its existing offices in Gerrards Cross at the begining of 2008, B P Collins opened the Chalfont Suite - a new state-of-the-art group of meeting rooms, complete with the latest multimedia technology. This large open space exhibits artwork from a variety of sources for staff, clients and visitors to the firm to enjoy. This site showcases previous and current exhibitions. After the sad passing of former managing partner Ian Johnson in 2010, the suite was renamed in his honour in September 2011.